NAILED GUTS
Live programmes are the blood of television. If a broadcasting station suffers a loss of blood, it will become a mere supplier for the goggle-box or some audiovisual home disco. Television is never more thrilling, nerve-racking and specific then in live programmes. You chew your fingernails to the bone, you want to go up the walls, get hopelessly plastered, pick up the telephone angrily, rave, hope to finally get through with your call, switch over again and again because you simply can't stand the thrill of being there again for the finale.Therefore, those previously recorded and trimmed game shows with their anonymous studio audiences are all the more damnable. No TV joice is streaming over the screen. Came shows are ruled by safety, order and boredom. Nobody exceeds the time limit, nobody talks smut in the heat of the studio lighting, nobody has to react to mishaps, nobody runs out of crisps and beer.
STWST-TV has this blood in its veins and STWST-TV is blood-thirsty.
CATASTROPHY TV
The Number One scene of catastrophies is the TV screen. As everything else, catastrophies can only be determined by human judgement. Irritation should be provided by TV in order to relativize conceptions of value. The enjoyment of catastrophies and catastrophic pleasure should not be left at liberty. Man's innate drive for destruction and annihilation is being speculated with.NOBODY IS SAFE
is like TV, taking place at several levels of action taking place at the same time. It psychically and materially investigates the phenomenon of controlled life.Our considerations were focussed on the meaning of the subject in relation to human existence and the everyday life connected with it. A high degree of quality of life produces a high degree of control over potential interference factors. Today we are faced with a highly developed culture of security systems, which have, in the meantime, acquired strong dynamics of their own. They have even come to inspire fear and uncertainty in the simple-minded. We want to know how people have their lives under control day by day and how they deal with their existence. The maintaining of value conceptions (what to protect and what from) associated with this, only apparently results in a network to stabilize existence. Ultimately, however, the network shows paranoid cracks, so that nobody can feel safe. The tendency towards control, which is a primary factor of survival for many, is revealed as a trap. Reason teaches us that we cannot know what will happen next.
